The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-14

most handsome, for IL was face tina
needed the rays OF the sun to brin,
out its best tints.
The eyes, dull brown In shade
became brilliant in the light, with that
subued radiance that seems to warn
without binding you, as q rich East
ern color warns, although it has nc
heat.
They had tired, unsatisfied look in
them this afternoon, and, despite the
peace and beauty OF the scene, he
seemed restless and distured. He was
in one OF what Lucia called his "com.
plex moods" when every opposite
force in his nature seemed to be at
work mt one and the same time.
His friendship had always been a
perplexity to her.
Sometimes he would be genial, mer.
ry, most charming good comsade,"
and then again cold, sad, and more or
less strange.
A struggling young physician, proud
and poor, fighting down for honor's
sake passionate, hopeless love.
Small wonder that he sometimes
moved as il IN dream, for these con.
hicts OF the heart-all the sharper for
being noiseless-are bound to leave
their scars upon the brain.
But Lucia did not guess any OF this
as a more widey-experienced woman
might have done, and only wondered
that her friend-for he did seem that
to her should be at times so unfriend.
like.
Among men he passed for O light oil
heart, careless kind of fellow, gener.
Gus, is little cold, but always ready
to lift burden for another, though
never letting any one come too near
his own. They sat without talking
for while feeling silence was the best
in that lovely spot where one was so
close to nature he could almost feel
her warm, odorous breath on his
cheek.
DIR. Holt was first to speak:
"Miss Lucia, | wonder what you are(
thinking about? Do you know, your
thoughts seem to float in your eyes
like fish in u stream, always there
just below the surface, but not al
ways easy to seize.
at is very tantalizing in you. You
look as if you had something to i'm.
part, and body gets to wondering
and wondering what it is, until he
finds himself doing nothing else"
81 really think you ought to stop it,
or else crafty very blameless curios'
ity."
She opened her purple eyes wide,
and giving him one OF her long, inclus.
i've looks, which seemed to adopt one
into her thoughts along with the
beautiful things already there, answer
ed slowly:
"Would you really like to know
Why, / was just thinking il | wererich,
what great things would do for this
river. 1t is terrible to be poor, isn't
itH There are so few things you can
do"
He leaned forward, picked up a
stone, and threw it into the water.
Eyes, it is terrible to be poor. !
sometimes wonder what good excuse
a poor man can offer for living"
His tone was so bitter that the girl
made haste to say
you should not talk that way; it
is wicked"
Shouldn't /? Well. perhaps not.
Somebody does say that poverty
comes by Divine gift as well as riches,
and suppose it is intended as sort
OF grist-mill for ones superhuous
pride; but when everything in mans
nature seems to run into that there is
not much OF the poor fellow left by the
time the grinding is over. There is
one thing, however," strengthening
himself up and looking across the riv-
er, THAT is objectionable, and that
is for man without money or pros
poets OF money to indulge himself In
that madness OF the heart called love.
He must keep that organ empty I'M
til his pockets are filled, for a full
heart and slim purse are an i'll
mated pair. Any other course is
sheer lunacy, and should be plea sui.
ficient for Imprisonment in the asylum
for idiots"
He paused q moment for Lucia to |
answer, but MS she did not speak he |
continued in the same strain with |
whimsical persistence, jeering at love
and lovers, and especially at those
silly folk who married for senti-
ment, with nothing substantial to |
feed it Oh, or themselves either, for
that matter"
Still Lucia did not interrupt him.
He kept his eyes fixed on the fields
to the south, and seemed unconscious
OF the vehemence OF his words.
"a man commits wrong when he
asks girl to marry him and has moth
ing to give her but his love. 1t sdes-
Ma Lie Ia, h,n, and cinflillrr uanl IL,